One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Wednesday, 12 November 2003

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Other News: Mac U.K. Marketshare

Mac marketshare is up in the U.K. according to IDC and Macworld UK. [MacInTouch]

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Popular Science magazine has posted its 2003 Best of What's New retrospective, where its editors highlight advances in technology and science over 2003. A dozen different individual categories are recognized, and Apple picked up a couple of nods in the Computing section, for the G5 and iTunes Music Store. [MacCentral]

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iModz is a new utility for iChat that lets you change the chat application's status messages. It can display a song name, a Web site's title, a personal message, a list of messages that switch and more. Built for Mac OS X 10.2 ("Jaguar") and Mac OS X 10.3 ("Panther") it's a freebie. [MacCentral]

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About Java
The Java Update delivers functional enhancements and improved stability for running Java applications and applets. It contains support for both Java 1.4.1 and Java 1.3.1. It is strongly recommended that all users install this update. [Mac OS X Hot Downloads]

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Wired: "A prestigious music school is encouraging musicians to swap audio and video clips of course material over peer-to-peer networks. File sharing is a cost-effective way to distribute the rich musical knowledge of the school, according to David Kusek, the school's associate vice president." [Scripting News]

Berklee

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Annual CMA Awards Broadcast in Dolby Pro Logic II
San Francisco (November 12, 2003)--The Country Music Association Awards was encoded and broadcast in Dolby Pro Logic II over network television in the US and over BBC radio in the UK on Wednesday, November 5. This was the first awards show broadcast in Dolby Pro Logic II. [ProSound News]

Man am I out of the loop. I wasn't even aware such a thing existed. Apparently 8 million decoders have been sold already.

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NPR Receives a Record Bequest of More Than $200 Million
Washington D.C. (November 12, 2003)--NPR has been honored with a bequest of more than $200 million from the estate of philanthropist Joan B. Kroc. It is believed to be the largest monetary gift ever received by an American cultural institution, NPR President Kevin Klose has announced. [ProSound News]

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Vote For the People's Choice Surround Music Award
New York, NY (November 12, 2003)--High Fidelity Review and the Surround Music Awards are giving you the chance to vote for your favorite high-resolution release of 2003. [ProSound News]

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Study Shows Streaming Movie and Music Files Offer Profits and Copyright Protection
BOONTON, N.J., Nov. 10, 2003 -- Insight Research's market analysis study, Streaming Media in Telecom Networks 2003-2008, describes the technology by which streaming protects content from theft, and demonstrates the potential for streaming media applications to underpin a mass market that is expected to grow at a compounded annual rate of nearly 80 percent over the next five years.
Read more [Digital Pro Sound News] I wonder what the study has to say about this?

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Major record companies continue merger talks BMG and Sony have announced intention to merge – and Warner and EMI continue discussions
[Gramophone - News]

Argh. The solution is to have smaller companies, not bigger.

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A good article on a powerful piece

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Martin's blueprint: Sources say he is considering a slimmed-down interim cabinet, with key loyalists as superministers and most of Chrétien's backers out in the cold. [GAM-National]

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Riopelle children halt auction of dad's art
A Quebec Superior Court judge granted a temporary injunction Tuesday evening to halt the auction of paintings and sculptures by late Quebec abstract artist Jean-Paul Riopelle. F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]

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Support for U.S. slipping among Iraqis: CIA
More Iraqis are losing faith in the U.S.-led coalition occupying their country and are increasingly likely to support insurgents fighting against it, a CIA report says. F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]

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6.30pm: Italians and Iraqis among dead · Soldiers may be trapped under rubble · Italians were training Iraqi police [Guardian Unlimited]

Dubbya really knew what he was doing, wouldn't you say?

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Ontario launches inquiry into Dudley George killing
The Ontario government has decided to set up an inquiry into the shooting death of aboriginal protester Dudley George. F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]

Great. Another good reason for Mike Harris to have stayed out of the run for the leadership of the new Conservative Party.

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A quick look at sharing an Internet connection in Panther with IP over FireWire (which is now built into Mac OS X 10.3) and AirPort, including the pros and cons of each method. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: MacDevCenter.com]

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“In the computer world, speed never goes out of style. And that makes Apple’s new Power Mac G5 very stylish indeed,” according to the editors of Popular Science magazine. For the “2003 Best of What’s New” in Computing, the editors selected the Power Mac G5 and the iTunes Music Store, saying “consumers have made Apple’s iTunes Music Store the music industry’s first digital success story.” [Nov 11] [Apple Hot News]

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Canadians remember, honour past sacrifice
In every corner of Canada usual business came to a stop at 11 o'clock in the morning as the country remembered and honoured its veterans from wars and other conflicts. F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]

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A weblog census prepared by the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education finds more than 27,000 weblogs published with Radio UserLand or Manila software.

The two categories of weblog software -- "standalone tools" and "hosted sites" -- don't provide a place for Radio, which provides both functions. [Rogers Cadenhead: Workbench: Radio Userland Kick Start]